Contents of the dead man's pockets

Exposition
~Tom chooses to stay home and work instead of spend the evening with Clare his wife and going to the movies.
~Tom and Clare live in an apartment on the eleventh floor, over a busy street
~Tom works really hard for a grocery store

Rising Action
~The notes Tom has been gathering were all written on one page, that page gets blown out the window
~Tom watches the paper outside his window, and hopes that it will fall down to the street
~Tom figures that the only way to get his paper back is to walk on the ledge outside of the window
~Tom walks switftly on the ledge outside of the window, and steadidly he reaches and grabs his paper back
~Tom looks down, and since he is on the eleventh floor he is frightened
~Since Tom is now frightened he has a much harder time of getting back to his apartment, so much so he almost falls
~Tom can't open his window to let himself back in the apartment, nor can he wait four hours until Clare lets him in
~Tom concludes that the only way he'll get back in his apartment is to smash the window open

Climax
~Tom shoots his arm forward toward the glass

Falling Action
~Tom feels the blow, his hands clecth the curtains, and the glass breaks
~Tom is safely into his apartment
~Tom puts the paper on his desk, using a pencil to weigh it down
~Tom gets his jacket

Resolution
~Tom laughs as the paper he recently risked his life for flies out the window, as he leaves the office to meet up with his wife Clare.

Imagery

"In the fractional momentbefore horror paralyzed him, as he stared between his legs at that terrible length of street far beneath him, a fragement of his mind raised his body in a spasmodic jerk to an upright position again, but so violently that his head scraped hard againsty the wall, bouncing off it, and his body swayed outward to the knigfe edge of balance, and he very nearly plunged backward and fell."
I feel that this quote, albeit a long one truly gives the reader a mental image of Tom being greatly frightened and almost falling off the extremely high ledge.

"He actually would lie on the floor, rollng, lenching tufts of the rug in his hands. He would literally runa cross the room, free to move as he liked, jumping on the floor, testing and reveling in its absolute security, letting the relif flood through him, draning the fear from his mind and body."
From this quote I can easily picture and feel the amount of joy that Tom would feel if he ever did get back into his apartment. I can easily picture Tom enthralled with his victory verse the ledge.